DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS IN PHYSICS STUDENTS OF THE C.E.T.I. - MÔNICA VALE FULL-TIME TEACHING CENTER, APPLIED TO THERMAL PHENOMENA

Abstract

Thermal effects can be described in both simple and more complex situations, making use of variables such as: temperature, pressure and volume. One of the applications of thermodynamics is linked to materials science, which studies means to obtain new types of materials, which have well-defined physical properties, as is the case in engineering, where the manufacturing processes of new materials involve a lot of heat transfer in obtaining new raw materials. Based on this knowledge, our project was developed in a systemic way, through proposed activities, which provided the discovery, approximation and integration with nature through physics, providing not only students and teachers, but any man to recognize himself in the world, with the world and acting on it in a sustainable way. The student saw himself as the subject of his own knowledge, he appropriated it through the connection he makes between the theoretical and practical knowledge offered by human culture that relates him to the action of his own existence. The experimental activities were applied in the pedagogical didactic context, contributing to the teaching of science in general. In particular, the Physics teachers revealed a greater concern with the use of this methodology because the students, for the most part, did not like the discipline, but started to like it from the participation in the realization of the experiments. As a result of the project, the use of the systemic model provided a motivational stimulus, which was one of the pillars of the improvement of the teaching-learning process. After the application of the project, we carried out a diagnosis with the students of the C.E.T.I - Mônica Vale school, where it was noticed that many students became interested in the area of Physics and with a very advanced knowledge, since they had full-time experimental and theoretical classes.